Music – could it be language?
Filed under: Language and the brain
If you ever see a musician speak while listening to music they may not necessarily be crazy, they could just be talking back to the music. Lucy Patston, a PhD student from The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Science, has discovered that musicians hear music as a language.
Read the full article at University of Auckland
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Comment by Asianflower 29 Mar 2009 at 5:55 pm
This might explain why I don’t like being talked to when I play piano.
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